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"Well there is a difference in posting something about a movie that has been out for years, and one that just came out."

I assumed KaYaK was joking about the spoiler on a film about historical events. Ones that happened. In history.


LOL ICEBERG KILLS TITANIC GUYS.

1/17/2010 4:45:48 AM

http://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/clips/digital-short-laser-cats-5/1193978/

1/17/2010 4:19:54 PM

ahahaha

avatar room

1/17/2010 6:49:57 PM

As of today:

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"Worldwide [total lifetime gross]: $1,602,168,000"

http://boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=avatar.htm

Wow.

1/17/2010 8:32:45 PM

giant blue cats

1/17/2010 8:43:01 PM

Didn't really think he would get best director.

1/17/2010 10:18:10 PM

Jim Cameron is such a tool.

1/17/2010 10:19:55 PM

^ Aye, but a tool with two $1 billion+ movies under his belt.

1/17/2010 10:25:42 PM

Because money is important.

Avatar and Titanic both suck.

1/17/2010 10:29:03 PM

Geez. Easy, tiger. Just stating a fact. Didn't offer my opinion on either of those two films.

1/17/2010 10:30:43 PM

A fact that has absolutely nothing to do with the fact that he's a tool.

1/17/2010 10:38:29 PM

Okay.

1/17/2010 10:39:51 PM

can we all at least agree that hearing The Governator say "Avatar" was funny?

1/17/2010 10:52:42 PM

BEST. MOTION. PICTURE. DRAMA.

1/17/2010 10:57:42 PM

What a joke

1/17/2010 10:59:13 PM

^ what a joke indeed... what a terrible movie

1/18/2010 12:09:10 AM

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"Because money is important. Avatar and Titanic both suck."

vinylbandit

Is there any point at which popular opinion and your own esoteric opinion meet? Ever?

1/18/2010 7:43:56 AM

There are plenty of points where they meet, yes. For instance, I love the Beatles.

The fact that a billion people love Titanic doesn't keep it from being a sappy, generic love story, or Avatar from being a piece of garbage wrapped in the prettiest paper in film history.

1/18/2010 7:50:50 AM

Fair enough.

1/18/2010 7:55:10 AM

Its going to take the #1 spot from titanic for worldwide gross.....its just a matter of weather it will the $600 million domestic record!

1/18/2010 10:15:25 AM

Which media outlet will use the headline "Avatar sinks Titanic as #1 grossing film"

1/18/2010 10:47:43 AM

^ LOL! It's just a matter of time.

1/18/2010 10:49:27 AM

Is Titanic's gross being adjusted for inflation in all these comparisons?

1/18/2010 10:54:09 AM

i think it will be in theaters for a while, cause no one cares about avatar on dvd, everyone wants the 3-d experience
but i hate to say after seeing it once, i dont care to sit through the whole thing again

1/18/2010 11:03:30 AM

Avatar sold a lot more 2-d tickets than 3-d

1/18/2010 11:06:00 AM

there were more 2-d viewings than 3d...most people won't waste money on "3d" in a regular theater

IMAX is the only way to go for that

1/18/2010 12:26:50 PM

The girl I went to see it with the first time said that she wants to see it again but only in 2-D. She didn't see what all the fuss was about in the 3-D version. To be fair, we also didn't see it in an IMAX. Damn you Greensboro!

1/18/2010 12:34:25 PM

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"Is Titanic's gross being adjusted for inflation in all these comparisons?"

No

But if they did that then movies like Gone with the Wind and Star Wars would probably be untouchable. Gone with the Wind had 1.5 billion in just domestic when adjusted for inflation.

1/18/2010 3:40:26 PM

I facepalmed pretty hard when James Cameron started speaking na'vi at the Golden Globes.

1/18/2010 3:54:30 PM

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"Jim Cameron is such a tool."

It's even more toolish to refer to people like this.

Like calling James Cameron

Jim Cameron

Or William Shatner

Bill Shatner.


It's not clever or cool and you look like a fucking idiot when you do it.

It is ok if you know the person and thats how they like to be addressed, but in cases like this you just come across looking retarded.



[Edited on January 18, 2010 at 4:35 PM. Reason : '/]

1/18/2010 4:34:56 PM

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"can we all at least agree that hearing The Governator say "Avatar" was funny?"

took me a minute to realize what "ahhvadaaaa" is

1/18/2010 4:46:52 PM

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" I assumed KaYaK was joking about the spoiler on a film about historical events. Ones that happened. In history. LOL ICEBERG KILLS TITANIC GUYS. "

You guys aren't gonna believe what happens at the end of United 93.

I won't spoil it.

1/18/2010 11:45:11 PM

[Edited on January 18, 2010 at 11:46 PM. Reason : whoops...posted it twice]

1/18/2010 11:45:56 PM

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"Because money is important."

Ohhhhh, so THAT'S why you spend all your time on a message board letting us primitive, unenlightened Neanderthals know what is good and what is bad, offering your two cents to noone that needs it. See, because I just thought someone that so clearly had the answers as to what makes for high art and what doesn't would make a living out of writing about that kind of thing professionally, but now I see; you don't do that because money isn't important. Well thank god you're here, because we were just sittin' here all dumbfounded by all the pretty lights and loud noises in Avatar. Thanks for letting us know that it actually sucks, we were almost tricked into being entertained.

1/18/2010 11:58:07 PM

^ http://itickr.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/01/600px-iq_curvesvg.png

1/19/2010 12:01:24 AM

I don't think the financial numbers are what will make this film memorable (although those statistics ARE quite the feat, considering the economy we're living in). What will make this film memorable for years to come is that was an unabashed BIG blockbuster, in every sense of that word, and yet it's visuals are still unlike anything anyone has ever seen on the big screen. It's the same kind of thing that made Star Wars a classic (even though I've never actually seen it ).

1/19/2010 12:03:05 AM

Just saw it last night in 3D

had a predictable, feel good story

great visuals and creativity

all and all I was very entertained, and that is what matters most

best motion picture, nah son.

1/20/2010 9:02:36 AM

Hustler to Make "Avatar" Porn Movie
http://www.worstpreviews.com/headline.php?id=16485&count=0

Thank God.

1/21/2010 5:52:20 PM

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"The fact that a billion people love Titanic doesn't keep it from being a sappy, generic love story, or Avatar from being a piece of garbage wrapped in the prettiest paper in film history."

Actually, it does.

1/23/2010 10:28:12 AM

^ I'm going to agree with vinylbandit on that one.

1/23/2010 12:58:15 PM

Avatar now the highest grossing film ever.

http://boxofficemojo.com/news/?id=2646&p=.htm

It's ok. I didn't like Titanic.

1/25/2010 1:15:51 AM

**SPOILER**















one thing that bugged me was that the dick colonel made a point to say the na'vi were very hard to kill, yet they got mowed down like any other organic lifeform. i was expecting guys to empty full clips into them and they'd still be moving forward













***END SPOILER***

[Edited on January 25, 2010 at 9:57 AM. Reason : .]

1/25/2010 9:56:31 AM

^ I think he just meant because they were so agile...when they had as many troops/tanks as at the end it's sort of hard to avoid that...even for the Na'vi

1/25/2010 12:04:43 PM

actually, I think he said their bodies have carbon fiber in them or something.

1/25/2010 12:34:58 PM

They are not likely to break any bones jumpin around, but a bullet will still rip up your internal organs I would imagine.

1/25/2010 1:39:18 PM

not to mention any time we saw them gunned down it was to automatic weapon fire, not some shitty hand gun they issue to all the marines.

1/25/2010 1:42:11 PM

they were so hard to kill because instead of fucking blowing them away from 30000 feet they decided to try the dumbest shit possible.

1/25/2010 7:28:18 PM

Well, it wouldn't have been much of a movie if they'd taken off and nuked the entire site from orbit, even though that's the only way to be sure.

1/25/2010 7:29:51 PM

Smallpox blankets work too.

1/25/2010 7:32:33 PM

it's called a cruise missile I think for a reason

1/25/2010 7:42:58 PM